My posts are coming fast and furious, man! Compared to the poor record from April to July. But I just have to record my outrage about 4 pieces of news.
Hurricane Katrina
I can't believe that this kind of thing is happening in the USA, in this time and age. People are dying, corpses are rotting, there's not enough food and clean water and then there are armed people looting, assaulting others, shooting at police and helicopters bearing relief supplies!! What's with these people??
Anyway, on a slightly related topic, the increase in petrol prices is really no joke. Pumped a 'full tank' yesterday for a whopping $77!! Don't remember ever having paid so much for a full tank. Unleaded 92 some more.
The white elephants of Buangkok MRT Station
Another unbelievable development. Someone actually complained about those white elephants and now police are investigating!! I hope they don't catch the 'culprit'. People should just lighten up, lah. What was wrong with those cardboard elephants? Thought they looked rather cute and, after all, the station is currently a white elephant. And, didn't the minister say he was 'amused'?
Anyway, what's the difference between putting up those white elephants and complaining on one's personal blog or writing to the Forum page about the unopened station?
Please don't report my blog to the police. I don't want to be accused of abetting those white elephant people.
Lady in coma and driver who knocked her down have EQUAL share of blame
Come one, the driver was the one who committed most of the mistakes -- reversed 5 car lengths against the flow of traffic on a one-way street, did not check blind spots, did not check for pedestrians (and possibly not for other cars either). The lady's husband has a point -- if you are crossing a one-way street, you are likely to just check for traffic coming from the direction they are supposed to come from.
Although Justice Lai also has a point, that pedestrians have the responsibility to check (and there are many pedestrians who do not bother to look out for cars, even when crossing roads illegally), I really don't agree with her reasoning that it is 'easier for a pedestrian to see a reversing car than vice versa', nor the point that because the car is a 'large vehicle' that 'has its blind spots', the pedestrian is as liable as the driver. It is the driver's responsibility to check and he/she should know that there are those blind spots and should all the more be careful. Especially when he/she decides to do the stupid and dangerous thing of reversing (I suspect at a fast speed, to 'chope' the parking lot) five car lengths against the flow of traffic. And it is common sense that the car, being the more dangerous of the two, is more a threat to the pedestrian than the other way around.
Please don't report me to Justice Lai.
The curious incident of the arctic dog who died
The owner of the poor Siberian husky who died of heatstroke got off with a fine. Why, in the first place, are people bringing in dogs like Siberian huskies?? I mean, the dog will have problems surviving even in temperate countries. It should remain in Siberia. What is it doing in Singapore? Why did the owner get it in the first place? Presumably he must be a dog lover. (Who else would spend so much on such a nice looking dog?) Why didn't he care about the dog's welfare?
And why is Bernard Harrison himself taking care of two(?) such dogs? He said he took them over from someone who couldn't care for them or something. He also said he has a huge shaded compound where they are kept. The point is his compound may be huge and shaded but this is the equatorial region. Why doesn't he send/sell those dogs to some place where the poor things can live comfortably? I'm wilting most days in this heat, even indoors. I can't imagine what it is like for those creatures with double coats of fur!!
Notice I used 'who' for the dog...
Hurricane Katrina
I can't believe that this kind of thing is happening in the USA, in this time and age. People are dying, corpses are rotting, there's not enough food and clean water and then there are armed people looting, assaulting others, shooting at police and helicopters bearing relief supplies!! What's with these people??
Anyway, on a slightly related topic, the increase in petrol prices is really no joke. Pumped a 'full tank' yesterday for a whopping $77!! Don't remember ever having paid so much for a full tank. Unleaded 92 some more.
The white elephants of Buangkok MRT Station
Another unbelievable development. Someone actually complained about those white elephants and now police are investigating!! I hope they don't catch the 'culprit'. People should just lighten up, lah. What was wrong with those cardboard elephants? Thought they looked rather cute and, after all, the station is currently a white elephant. And, didn't the minister say he was 'amused'?
Anyway, what's the difference between putting up those white elephants and complaining on one's personal blog or writing to the Forum page about the unopened station?
Please don't report my blog to the police. I don't want to be accused of abetting those white elephant people.
Lady in coma and driver who knocked her down have EQUAL share of blame
Come one, the driver was the one who committed most of the mistakes -- reversed 5 car lengths against the flow of traffic on a one-way street, did not check blind spots, did not check for pedestrians (and possibly not for other cars either). The lady's husband has a point -- if you are crossing a one-way street, you are likely to just check for traffic coming from the direction they are supposed to come from.
Although Justice Lai also has a point, that pedestrians have the responsibility to check (and there are many pedestrians who do not bother to look out for cars, even when crossing roads illegally), I really don't agree with her reasoning that it is 'easier for a pedestrian to see a reversing car than vice versa', nor the point that because the car is a 'large vehicle' that 'has its blind spots', the pedestrian is as liable as the driver. It is the driver's responsibility to check and he/she should know that there are those blind spots and should all the more be careful. Especially when he/she decides to do the stupid and dangerous thing of reversing (I suspect at a fast speed, to 'chope' the parking lot) five car lengths against the flow of traffic. And it is common sense that the car, being the more dangerous of the two, is more a threat to the pedestrian than the other way around.
Please don't report me to Justice Lai.
The curious incident of the arctic dog who died
The owner of the poor Siberian husky who died of heatstroke got off with a fine. Why, in the first place, are people bringing in dogs like Siberian huskies?? I mean, the dog will have problems surviving even in temperate countries. It should remain in Siberia. What is it doing in Singapore? Why did the owner get it in the first place? Presumably he must be a dog lover. (Who else would spend so much on such a nice looking dog?) Why didn't he care about the dog's welfare?
And why is Bernard Harrison himself taking care of two(?) such dogs? He said he took them over from someone who couldn't care for them or something. He also said he has a huge shaded compound where they are kept. The point is his compound may be huge and shaded but this is the equatorial region. Why doesn't he send/sell those dogs to some place where the poor things can live comfortably? I'm wilting most days in this heat, even indoors. I can't imagine what it is like for those creatures with double coats of fur!!
Notice I used 'who' for the dog...
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